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Lent Resources Year C

Lent – Year C A collection of Lent resources and Holy Week resources including sermon ideas, whole sermons, sermon series ideas, and more. Home » You searched for Lent Lent Resources 2022 Quick Links First Sunday in Lent, March 6, 2022 Second Sunday in Lent, March 13, 2022 Third Sunday in Lent, March […]

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Lent Resources Year A

Lent – Year A A collection of Lent resources and Holy Week resources including sermon ideas, whole sermons, sermon series ideas, and more. Home » You searched for Lent Lent Resources 2023 Quick Links First Sunday in Lent, February 26, 2023 Second Sunday in Lent, March 5, 2023 Third Sunday in Lent, March […]

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Numbers 21:4-9

Lent 4B

[…] on a cross as a way to deal with the scourge of death that our sinfulness has brought upon us all.   Death cures death. The Season of Lent is a long reminder to us all that our sins are no trite matter.  They cannot be scrubbed away quickly or lightly.  Also, Numbers 21 may […]

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Ezekiel 37:1-14

Lent 5A

At first glance, this famous vision of the valley of dry bones seems more like an Easter text than a Lenten text.  I mean, if the text left us with a valley full of dry bones, it might fit the somber mood of the last week of Lent.  But it doesn’t, because the bleached-out […]

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Romans 10:8b-13

Lent 1C

[…] is Lord and Christ!? Well, in the midst of all that the handful of verses the Lectionary has carved out for the Year C First Sunday in Lent are mostly free of all the pathos and bathos of the surrounding chapters. True, one ought not read these verses without being aware of that context. […]

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Psalm 19

Lent 3B

[…] Railroad, which follows two escaped slaves, Caesar and Cora, as they journey on a literal underground railroad to the north and freedom.  On this Third Sunday of Lent we are a little less than half way on our journey to the cross and freedom in Christ.  Because we don’t experience the cruelty of our […]

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Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22

Lent 4B

[…] the goodness of Yahweh in his role as Redeemer of his troubled people. That theme alone makes Psalm 107 a fitting choice for this Fourth Sunday of Lent, as we follow our Redeemer on his journey to the cross where he performed the most “wonderful deed” for humanity.  But originally this Psalm was probably […]

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Psalm 22:23-31

Lent 2B

Considering that a portion of Psalm 22 is assigned to the Second Sunday in Lent, it seems odd that the Revised Common Lectionary would select for us not the first two-thirds of the psalm that is a whopping lament but instead the sunny-side-up concluding verses.  Psalm 22 almost seems like it’s two separate poems.  […]

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Jeremiah 31:31-34

Lent 5B

[…] Sin is not a problem I can take care of on my own—a point that ought come as no surprise to anyone especially during the Season of Lent—and so if I cannot on my own get over my tendency to sin, then I need some better news than just the revelation that at least […]

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Romans 4:13-25

Lent 2B

[…] from Hellenistic thought that dramatically changed Jesus’ message.  Paul, say the most radical critics, invented Christianity. A comparison of the lectionary readings for this second Sunday of Lent seems to illustrate that radical claim.  In the reading from Mark 8, Jesus calls for a cruciform, self-denying discipleship.  It costs to follow Jesus.  In the […]

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